The Chicago protest also highlighted the growing campaign to demand that Peoria-based Caterpillar Corporation stop selling bulldozers to the Israeli military, which uses CAT equipment to destroy roads, wipe out olive trees, and demolish Palestinian homes. A Caterpillar export -- the D-9 armored bulldozer -- was used to crush Rachel to death on March 16 as she tried to block the demolition of a Palestinian home near Rafah in the occupied Gaza Strip.